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Issue #230 June 6, 2013

Get Your Garden On

Wondering what’s going on at the Forest Street Community Gardens? Head down to the river bank north of Phoenix Park and the Downtown Farmers Market for ...

Study: UWEC has Boffo Economic Boost

Conversations about money and college usually revolve around costs: ballooning tuition bill for students, for instance, or the millions of dollars in state aid provided by taxpayers. Rarely do we hear about...

Over the Top

National Armwrestling Championship comes to Eau Claire

Questioning the Locals | Amber Dernbach

If Eau Claire’s growing improv comedy scene has a heart and soul, it’s Amber Dernbach. The Eau Claire native had her first improv performance experience at age 17. “It’s been in my blood since,” she ...

Note from the Editor | June 6, 2013

I love trees. A lot. Even though I knew it was inevitable, it was devastating to see all the mature ash trees along South Barstow Street come down on the first day of construction. It just looks super weird down there now, and startlingly so. All the buildings fully ...

Issue #229 May 23, 2013

Work on New JAMF Software office to start in June

South Barstow Street won’t be the only part of Eau Claire’s downtown getting attention this summer: Work will begin in June to prepare the site of JAMF Software’s new office next to Phoenix Park. On May 14, the Eau Claire City Council voted ...

Going for Gold

There’s gold in them thar hills” – and rivers and streams. Learn how to pan for gold at the Prospecting for Gold class Saturday, June 1, from 9:30 to 11:30am at the Wise Nature Center of the Beaver Creek Reserve near Fall Creek. Mike Wiersma ...

Empowering Local Kids in the Great Outdoors

Young people in the Chippewa Valley have a lot to look forward to this fall. Kids and Mentors Outdoors (KAMO), a grassroots, nonprofit organization focused on conservation-based mentorships, will be setting up camp in the area ...

City Gives Final OK to Get Diggin' on South Barstow

All systems are finally a go for the reconstruction of South Barstow Street. On May 14, the Eau Claire City Council voted unanimously to approve a $1.65 million contract with Haas Sons of Thorp to rebuild a five-block stretch of downtown ...

Visit Eau Claire, UWEC Join Forces to Boost Tourism

UW-Eau Claire and Visit Eau Claire, the local tourism promotion agency, inked a deal May 17 they say could bring millions of new visitor dollars to the region. The agreement gives Visit Eau Claire “preferred scheduling” for ...

UWEC Small Business Center Grabs Statewide Honor

UW-Eau Claire’s Small Business Development Center apparently has developed a reputation for taking care of business … and of businesses. Now, the center is the winner of the 2013 Small Business Development Center Service Excellence Award for ...

Hip Trips/Wine Time 2013
Issue #228 May 9, 2013
Outdoor Adventures (Spring & Summer 2013)

7 Awesome Locales to Paddle in the Spring

"... put your vessel in at Braun’s Bay’s easy and accessible landing. Paddle past the Carson Park cliffs (very scenic) and then under the Lake Street Bridge into the bay ..."

Issue #227 April 25, 2013

JAMF Office Plan Moves Ahead

JAMF Software has cleared the first hurdle on the path to building a new office building next to Phoenix Park in downtown Eau Claire. On April 9, the Eau...

Straight from the Vineyard to Red Cedar

Menomonie wine lovers have a new destination to check out. The Red Cedar Wine Bar and Steakhouse is now open at 1705 Plaza Blvd. in Menomonie and offers scores of...

Deal (mostly) Sealed For City

The civic symbol-bedecked image you see here is now (kinda, sorta) the official coat of arms and seal of the city of Eau Claire. On April 9, the Eau Claire City Council adopted...

Time to De-trash the Forest

The heavy-duty junk – stuff like tires, appliances, and even hazardous waste – illegally dumped in the Eau Claire County Forest has prompted a heavy-duty cleanup. The Our...

At Home 2013
Issue #226 April 11, 2013

Council Says 'Write On' to Poet Laureate Taylor

he second verse will be the same as the first, at least when Eau Claire’s poet laureate is concerned. On March 26, the Eau Claire City Council voted unanimously to appoint Bruce Taylor to a second term as the city’s preeminent poet.

Eau Claire Street Chief Amundson Soon Will Retire

The man who ultimately oversees Eau Claire’s streets, water and wastewater utilities, buses, and other public necessities is stepping down at the end of May. Public works director and city engineer Brian Amundson, who has been with the city since 1986, submitted a 60-day

Here They Grow

Eau Claire's JAMF Software: Who are they and what do they do?

Car Culture 2013

Motor Murals

Local Airbrush artist brightens up the streets with colorful, custom designs

Start Your Engines

We talk to Red Cedar's Tara Prochnow about racing in the Chippewa Valley

Issue #225 Mar. 28, 2013

A Lively Library

from Peeps to an anti-prom, Fall Creek library programs aim to engage

Shared Work Means Shared Veggies at Community Garden

It may still feel a bit like winter, but the calendar says it’s spring, and that means gardening season is just around the corner. If you don’t have a spot to garden on your own property, or you’d just rather garden collaboratively, you can become part of the Forest Street Community Garden. Organizers are now accepting applications for membership in the Shared Volunteer...

Eau Claire Want Cookie Dough Factory! Om Nom Nom Nom!

Calling all Cookie Monsters! Clubs Choice Fundraising ­– whose goodies and gifts are sold by schools and other nonprofit groups as fundraisers – is opening a cookie dough factory in a 13,000 square-foot building leased from Huntsinger Farms south of Eau Claire on Highway 37.

Note from the Editor | Mar 28, 2013

Nobody cares about somebody else’s vacation. Well, sorry, because I can’t seem to stop myself from talking about my vacation. My real vacation. I say “real” because I haven’t been anywhere outside ...

Meet the Candidates

Ten candidates are competing for seats on the Eau Claire City Council. Here’s who they are and what they think.

Night Out 2013
Eat Scene 2013
Issue #224 Mar. 14, 2013

JAMF Software Pledges $500k to Confluence Project

JAMF Software is donating half a million dollars to help fund some new hardware in downtown Eau Claire. The firm has pledged $500,000 to the Confluence Project, a proposed public-private development that would include a performing arts center ...

About the Pillow Fight...

Our stewardship of the annual April Fools’ Day celebration draws to a close, but can the ‘will of the people’ keep the five minutes of feathery fury alive?

Does it Pay to Sell?

How to sustain your community art event: get creative, work hard, and find people who will actually buy art.

Stepping Up

unique troupe taps into on 100-year-old dance rituals

Menard Rises in Billionare Rankings

Eau Claire’s own John Menard has climbed higher on Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s billionaires. According to the rankings, which were published in early March, Menard is worth an estimated $7 billion, making him the 53rd richest...

EC High Schoolers Aid in Japan Clean-Up

Students enrolled in Japanese language classes at Eau Claire Memorial and Eau Claire North high schools were granted the chance to travel to Japan for two weeks to help clean up after the 2011 tsunami. The 23 students left March 3 on the 14-hour...

Kids & Families - Spring 2013

Tiny Hiney: On Writing a Story

Tiny Hiney is written by Eva Paulus, the six-and-a-half-year-old daughter of Volume One columnist Mike Paulus (who writes The Rear End). For this installment, Eva agreed to be interviewed about her story writing process.

Issue #223 Feb. 28, 2013

Note from the Editor | Feb. 28, 2013

At V1, this past year has been one where everything needed to get figured out all over again. It’s like when you move into a new house or apartment – you have to determine which closets and drawers will hold what and how it all flows, etc. Or when...

Eau Claire-Menomonie Bus Link Pondered

Could a daily bus linking Menomonie and Eau Claire be coming down the road? The possibility of such a commuter service was discussed Feb. 21 by the Dunn County Board. Ann Schell of the West Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission and Dunn...

Happy 141st, Eau Claire!

you’re invited to a birthday bash for our fair city featuring music, improv, poetry, film, bingo, and cake

Council, School Board Candidate Forum Slated

Eau Claire voters can look forward to a civic enlightenment double-header on Thursday, March 7, when back-to-back candidate forums are planned at Chippewa Valley Technical College. At 6pm, the five hopefuls for three open...

Survey Finds Much Love For Two-Way Traffic

The Eau Claire Area Chamber of Commerce surveyed its members about two-way traffic on downtown streets and found most opinions ran in one direction: favorable. In September, traffic switched to two-way on stretches of South Barstow Street and...

Building Up

JAMF Software plans for large Phoenix Park office

Start Up 2013

Working Together

sharing space and making connections in Eau Claire's first coworking facility

PROS & CONS: Entrepreneurship in the Valley

OK, you want to start a business. You can’t control every factor that could lead to success or failure, but there is one major element you can: geography. So should you pack up your amazing idea and head elsewhere, or is the Chippewa Valley the ...

Issue #222 Feb. 14, 2013
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